Re: [ENHANCEMENT/BUG] svn list --verbose should not cut the author in the output

[Leslie Kishalmi <lk...@netbeans.org>]

Julian Foad wrote:
> Leslie Kishalmi wrote:
> 
>> I'd welcome a '--long' option to these commands where none of the 
>> output were cut of, the main reason is to return a parseable (not 
>> especially visually, but by a program) without information loss.
> 
> 
> If something like this were to be implemented, the "--strict" option 
> that is currently accepted by some commands would probably be the 
> appropriate option name.
> 
> However, spaces and other characters in user names would require a 
> quoting mechanism which, while it need not be complex, would neither be 
> really neat for human viewing nor really easy to parse.
> 
> Also, note that the date field is currently not canonical: it is 
> designed only for human viewing.
> 
> 
>> The most elegant solution would be an '--xml' option which would 
>> return an xml format, like the log command, and have the client 
>> property mentioned before.
> 
> 
> Right.  Regardless of whether we make any change to the plain text 
> output, an XML output is clearly needed, and is not difficult.
> 
> I'll do this.  I've just started working on "--xml" options for "svn 
> list" and other information-giving commands.  I will start a separate 
> thread ("Parseable output: --xml option for more commands") to discuss it.
> 
> - Julian
Thanks Julian! I'll watch that thread!

Laszlo Kishalmi


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